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Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

advanced structural systems, structural dynamics, structural design, earthquake engineering, isolation and other high performance systems, use of novel materials in design

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

computer architecture & engineering, cyber-physical systems and design automation, energy, operating systems & networking

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Megan Mills-Novoa

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

climate change adaption, energy transitions, political ecology of global change, critical development studies, water justice, participatory mixed methods, Latin America

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

noble gas geochemistry, thermochronometry, cosmogenic nuclide, alpine glacial erosion, chemical weathering, lunar impacts, magnetism, Martian meteorites, Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission

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john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

cardiovascular biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, thrombosis, medical image processing, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, Lagrangian coherent structures, mathematical modeling

Pierluigi Nuzzo

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

cyber-physical systems and design automation, control and intelligent systems and robotics, integrated circuits, computer architecture & engineering, artificial intelligence, power and energy, programming systems, security

Mel Y Chen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity

Marc A. Rieffel

Marc A. Rieffel

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, operator algebras, non-commutative geometry, non-commutative harmonic analysis, quantum geometry, quantum information theory

Benjamin Porter

Benjamin Porter

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies

Evan R. Williams

Evan R. Williams

Dept of Chemistry

spectroscopy, molecular structure and dynamics, analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, structure and reactivity of biomolecules and biomolecule/water interactions, mass spectrometry, separations, protein conformation, protein and DNA sequencing

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

radio, planetary science, infrared, observations

John D. Kubiatowicz

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer architecture, quantum computer design, internet-scale storage systems and peer-to-peer networking, operating systems & networking, computer security

Christina Romer

Christina Romer

Dept of Economics

economics, the federal reserve, monetary shocks, the great depression

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Dept of English

English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading

Anant Sahai

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

machine learning, artificial intelligence, information theory, communications theory, wireless communication, cognitive radio, distributed control, spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing, spectrum policy, power consumption in communications systems

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

microscopy, nanomaterials, Nuclear materials, material science, radiation damage, corrosion in liquid metals, materials development, materials under extremes, nuclear applications, ion beam microscopy, nanoscale mechanical testing

Olga Holtz

Dept of Mathematics

numerical analysis, matrix and operator theory, approximation theory, wavelets and splines, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, analysis of algorithms and computational complexity

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Dept of Rhetoric

Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought

Dept of Statistics

statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology

Dept of Physics

physics, lasers, x-rays, plasma physics, materials, atomic physics, ultrafast science

a portrait photograph of peter jenks, smiling, wearing a crimson shirt.

Peter Jenks

Dept of Linguistics

syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages

Iswar Hariharan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

growth regulation, regeneration, cancer

Hedy Kober

Dept of Psychology

craving, regulation of craving, alcohol and substance use disorder, treatments for substance use and eating disorders, neural and psychological mechanisms of treatment, emotion regulation, mindfulness, meditation